Dispatches from the City of Angels
I'm a writer and humorist living in and writing about Los Angeles. You can catch my novel LOSING CLEMENTINE out March 6 from William Morrow. In the meantime, feel free to poke around. Over at my website you can find even more blog entries than I could fit here, as well as a few other ramblings. Enjoy and come back often.
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Ban Me, Baby
We'll get back to the whole Europe thing next I promise. But it's banned books week, and I love banned books week. It brings out the rebellious teenager in me. Makes me want to go sneak into the town pool and go skinny dipping.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Girls and Sex, Go Ask Alice, The Drowning of Stephen Jones, A Light in the Attic, Women on Top, Brave New World, Beloved.
It's shocking how many books on the 100 most banned list are there because of sex - women's sexuality and homosexuality specifically. Not so much the straight guy sex. We're cool with that, apparently. But mama gets a vibrator, and the shit is going down.
My favorite banned book as a teenager was Annie on my Mind. I read it specifically because my school wouldn't allow it in the library, which was the surest way to get me to tear apart my little Bible Belt suburb looking for a copy. (This was pre-Amazon.com.) I still have the one I found and bought and read half a dozen times. And I still love it. In fact, I'm going to go read it again. It is banned books week after all. I have to celebrate.
So go on. Go read something subversive and naughty. It's good for your soul.
(Skinny dipping, too.)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Girls and Sex, Go Ask Alice, The Drowning of Stephen Jones, A Light in the Attic, Women on Top, Brave New World, Beloved.
It's shocking how many books on the 100 most banned list are there because of sex - women's sexuality and homosexuality specifically. Not so much the straight guy sex. We're cool with that, apparently. But mama gets a vibrator, and the shit is going down.
My favorite banned book as a teenager was Annie on my Mind. I read it specifically because my school wouldn't allow it in the library, which was the surest way to get me to tear apart my little Bible Belt suburb looking for a copy. (This was pre-Amazon.com.) I still have the one I found and bought and read half a dozen times. And I still love it. In fact, I'm going to go read it again. It is banned books week after all. I have to celebrate.
So go on. Go read something subversive and naughty. It's good for your soul.
(Skinny dipping, too.)
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